Bible Verses About Sexual Relations And Christian Marriage

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Core Bible passage naming marriage and the marriage bed

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Core passage on abstaining from relations except by marriage context

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Direct marriage pairing for sexual temptation

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

Directly contrasts marriage with remaining unmarried

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Forbids marriage-seeking teachers as false asceticism; relevant to rejection of marriage abuse

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Temporary abstinence for prayer

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.